vertebraとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin vertebra (“joint”), from vertere (“to turn”). Having multiple vertebrae (複数形 of vertebra) in one's backbone instead of having a single bone or solid spine, allows for the movement of the body with bends and turns. Hence meaning 1.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈvɜːtɪbɹə/

名詞

vertebra (複数形 vertebræ または vertebrae または vertebras)

1. Any of the small bones which make up the backbone.
   • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure‎^[1]:

     Already I seemed to hear the water rippling against the desiccated bones and rattling them together, rolling my skull against Mahomed's, and his against mine, till at last Mahomed's stood straight up upon its vertebræ, and glared at me through its empty eyeholes, and cursed me with its grinning jaws, because I, a dog of a Christian, disturbed the last sleep of a true believer.

同意語

• spondyle (まれに)

派生語

参考

• coccyx

Further reading

• vertebra on Wikipedia.

Latin